SAT version 5.5.0
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-Release Notes, May 2020
+Release Notes, July 2020
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* **sat prepare** command will return an error if system prerequisites are not installed.
* **sat config** has now an option **--check_system** that list all the system prerequisites with their status.
+**Removing build dependencies from binary archives**
+SALOME archive are getting fat. In order to reduce the size of binary archives, the management by sat of the build prerequisites was modified.
+build prerequisites are not included anymore in binary archives.
+**New option -f --force for sat compile**
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+This option can be used to **force** the recompilation of products.
+It is an alternative to --clean_all, which do not work properly with the single_dir mode
+(it will erase the complete PRODUCTS directory, which is usually not expected!
Change log
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| Artifact | Description |
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-| sat #18501 | mauvaise gestion de la fonctionnalité rm_products dans les archives |
+| sat #18501 | bad management of rm_products functionality in archives |
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+| sat #18546 | for products installed in BASE, replace in directory name / by _ to avoid the |
+| | creation if a directory |
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+| sat #19109 | more robust choice of the package manager to check system dependencies |
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+| sat #18720 | add option --use-mesa in automatic completion |
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+| sat #19192 | don't remove PRODUCTS dir when compilation fails |
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+| sat #19234 | remove build products from bin archives, better management of their environment |
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+| sat #19218 | correct out_dir_Path substituion for appended variables |
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+| sat #18350 | -f option for sat compile : force the recompilation |
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-| sat #18546 | pour les produits installés en base, replacement dans le nom du répertoire de / |
-| | par _ pour éviter la création d'un sous répertoire |
+| sat #18831 | sat compile --clean_all : do all the cleaning, then compile |
+| | (bug correction with single_dir mode) |
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-| | |
+| sat #18653 | replace platform.linux_distribution by distro.linux_distribution for python 3.8+ |
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